From ajkosten@magigimmix.xs4all.nl Thu Jun 13 08:01:07 1996 From: "Arthur Kosten" To: REVS@csf.colorado.edu Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:58:16 +0000 Subject: Update on Migration and Ethnic Relations V-lib Reply-to: ajkosten@xs4all.nl *** apologies for cross-posting *** For those interested in the field of migration and ethnic relations, this is to inform you that the WWW Virtual Library on Migration and Ethnic Relations has been significantly improved and expanded. It now contains annotated links to over 200 major online resources in the field and many new features that make it easier to locate relevant resources. The Virtual Library has been designed as a shared resource for both professionals in the field and the wider Internet community. You are invited to have a look at it and see if there is something in it for you, and whether you know interesting resources that are not included yet. You can find the Virtual Library at: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/index.html Recent new features include: - many new sites and new descriptions of existing sites. - In response to popular demand: full online keyword searching of resource descriptions; - a new and enhanced navigation structure to facilitate navigation; - an updated help file for the Information Board with answers to frequently asked questions; - a new and state-of-the-art animated logo with a spinning globe; - many smaller changes. Below is a list of resources added since 14 May 1996: Research Institutes CEEM - USMA - Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua, El Dorado ; Panama 6, Panama URL: http://www2.usma.ac.pa/ceem/ceeming.html "The Centro de Estudios Etnicos y Migratorios-Universidad Santa Maria la Antigua (CEEM-USMA) is an education and research group in the fields of ethnic and migration studies, which we believe responds to a profound need experienced by Panamanian society. The Center has been developed over the past two years through the collaboration of academics from various social disciplines, such as history, anthropology, sociology and psychology, including both intellectuals from USMA as well as from other institutions and universities." [Description from selfpresentation / 5 June 1996] Research Programs ATMHN - the Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network URL: http://ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au/~atmhn/ "The Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network seeks to improve the quality and accessibility of mental health services available to Australia's immigrant communities through the establishment of a national agenda in transcultural mental health research; professional and community education and service development; the provision of a national information and clearinghouse service. Information provided on research, professional development, community education and network members. State and national policy documents in full text. Links to medicine, psychiatry, migration, refugees, cross-cultural studies, ethnic health, and Australian institutions." [Description provided by atmhn@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au / 3 June 1996] OSI-FMP - Open Society Institute - Forced Migration Projects New York, New York USA URL: http://www.soros.org/migrate.html "... The Forced Migration Projects are action-oriented programs that monitor circumstances in the 15 countries that emerged or re-emerged after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in order to warn of forced movements and to identify conditions that may cause such dislocations, including armed conflict, human rights violations, economic underdevelopment, environmental degradation, and other failures of governance. The Forced Migration Projects seek to encourage early humanitarian responses to migration emergencies, advocate humane treatment and protection of the rights of those unable to return, and promote measures aimed at averting people's need to flee...." [Description provided by agalietti@sorosny.org / 17 May 1996] Journals and Newsletters World on the Move - ASA Newsletter of the Section on International Migration Michigan State University Sociology Department, USA URL: http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~soc/pub.html "The World on the Move newsletters and other publications of the Sociology Department. The Newsletter is available in zipped format only" [Description by Arthur J. Kosten - WWW VL editor / 5 June 1996] Non-Periodical Publications Arthur Hu's collected writings on race and ethnicity Arthur Hu, Kirkland, USA URL: http://www.halcyon.com/arthurhu/ "Compiled writings on race and ethnicity, mainly political columns by Arthur Hu, a conservative Asian-American." [Description by Arthur J. Kosten - WWW Virtual Library editor / 5 June 1996] Conferences and Meetings Inaugural Conference of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Brisbane, 30 September-2 October 1996 Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, Faculty of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia. URL: http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/hum/conf/culture_citizenship_conf.html "The 'Culture and Citizenship' conference will make a significant contribution to debates on the place of citizenship in national and international cultural and media policy. It will address the following questions: What is the relationship between citizenship, culture and government? What role should media, arts and culture play in shaping citizenship? The following topic areas will be addressed at the conference: Public Culture and Citizenship; Cultural and Media Policy Professions; Peoples and Citizens; Redefining Citizenship; The Future of Citizenship" [Description from self presentation / 5 June 1996] World Congress on Violence and Human Coexistence, University College Dublin 17-21 August 1997 University College Dublin, Ireland URL: http://www.ucd.ie/~congress/congressindex.html "As mankind moves into the third millennium, the World Congress proposes to provide an interdisciplinary, multicultural forum for expression, research and exchange on the conditions required for the fullness of human coexistence, with a view to achieving a more global and deep understanding of the many eruptions of violence in human life and history." [Description from self-presentation / 5 June 1996] Data Archives REFWORLD on Internet UNHCR's Centre for Documentation and Research (CDR) URL: http://www.unicc.org/unhcr "The new REFWORLD site continues HCR's policy of providing authoritative information on refugees worldwide, and includes country reports, legal and policy-related documents, literature references, statistics and publications. Of particular interest are the Repatriation Information Reports prepared by UNHCR's Special Operation in former Yugoslavia (SOFY). These reports, created and updated by UNHCR field staff, provide detailed information about specific municipalities within Bosnia & Herzegovina, in order to inform those contemplating return. Among the subjects covered are political background, demographic characteristics, security situation, registration procedures for returnees, infrastructure conditions and existing assistance programmes. CDR is an information, research and training centre for UNHCR. It is dedicated to providing reliable and current information and analysis on all aspects relating to refugees and displaced persons, including their countries of origin, legal instruments, human rights, minorities, conflict situations and resolution of conflicts." [Information provided by myles@unhcr.ch / 7 May 1996] Mailing and Discussion Lists RACE-POL Subject: Internet Discussion List for Race, Ethnicity and Politics Sponsored by the APSA Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics Computerized administrator: LISTSERV@ACADCOMP.CMP.ILSTU.EDU Human administrator: ttodd@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Send mail to the group: follow guidelines upon subscription Subscription: Send the message "SUBSCRIBE RACE-POL your name" to LISTSERV@ACADCOMP.CMP.ILSTU.EDU Description: RACE-POL is an internet discussion list sponsored by the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics. The list exists to facilitate communication among political scientists and other scholars who share an interest in race, ethnicity, and political power. Messages to the list include, among other topics, discussion of issues in racial and ethnic politics, requests for citations and sources, book reviews and new book announcements, information about graduate programs, notices of upcoming conferences and meetings, and reports from the Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics. REVS Subject: An International E-Mail Network about Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Open to: anyone Computerized administrator: LISTSERV@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Human administrator: SPECTOR@CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU Send mail to the group: write to: REVS@csf.colorado.edu Subscription: Send the message "SUB REVS Your name" to LISTSERV@CSF.COLORADO.EDU Description:: An electronic mail network for scholars, researchers, students, activists, and all interested observers for reporting, investigating, and analyzing the rapid growth and development of Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence (REVS). NGO's NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art. URL: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/NativeTech/ "NativeTech is an educational web site that covers topics of Native American technology and emphasizes the Eastern Woodlands region. The web site is organized into categories of traditional Native uses of beads, birchbark, cattails, clay, cornhusks, leather, plants, pottery, stone, and other materials. I also have some simple instructional information about how many of these materials are used by Natives. I try to provide detailed background on the history, development, changes and continuities in Native technologies from pre-contact to the present." [Information provided by Tara Prindle (prindle@uconnvm.uconn.edu) / 3 June 1996] Topical Information Photius Coutsoukis on the new U.S. immigration bill which was recently passed in the Senate: Photius Coutsoukis, Information Technology Associates, Medford, OR, USA URL: http://www.immigration-usa.com/interview.html "Transcription of radio interview with Photius Coutsoukis, director of Information Technology Associates, producers of immigration software, on the new U.S. immigration bill which was recently passed in the Senate" [Description by Virtual Library editor Arthur J. Kosten (ajkosten@fsw.ruu.nl) / 28 May 1996] _________________________________________________________________ Arthur J. Kosten European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations P.O. Box 80.140, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31 30 2532968, Fax: +31 30 2534733 e-mail: ajkosten@fsw.ruu.nl ERCOMER website: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer Virtual Library: http://www.ruu.nl/ercomer/wwwvl/wwwvlmer.html _________________________________________________________________ From c.tibby@auckland.ac.nz Mon Jun 17 18:13:17 1996 18 Jun 96 12:15:10 +1200 From: "Che Tibby" Organization: Human Science Lab To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:14:59 GMT+1200 Subject: (Fwd) Thesis Contributions Forwarded message: From: Self To: peace@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Thesis Contributions Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:13:44 Greetings! My name is Che Tibby and I'm currently completing a Masters thesis at Auckland University. The major topic is conflict resolution and provention, with a focus on identity politics and social conflict. I'll outline some points and if I could get some dialogue going it would be much appreciated, likewise, any personal contributions in the form of references or overlooked points won't be badly received. The major component of the issue is the formation of political identity and the manner in which it is handled by the state. -How does the state "control" political identity? -Is the nation a socio-political reality, or merely a construct of modern societies? -Is "nation" really the highest stage in a political organisation heirarchy? Or are other forms equally valid but lacking power/authority. These and other questions are the core of the thesis. The theme of the thesis is the construction of a truly bicultural state in New Zealand. The expectation is that if the deep-rooted conceptual basis of the nation-state is sufficiently deconstructed that a more appropriate form of government can be reconstructed to form an actual bicultural nation(s)-state. -But is constitutionalism a solution? -Can more than one nation be adequately represented in a state without failing to majoritarianism? -Do all nations need full/equal shares in power/authority, or will a species of corporatism be adequate? Any contributions to these problems will be greatly appreciated. What I hope to achieve is to demonstrate that identity is as valid as economics or security in the generation of long-term domestic policy, and therefore requiring proventative politics. Regards Che Tibby From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Wed Jun 19 13:50:58 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "revs@csf.colorado.edu" Date: Wed, 19 Jun 96 15:42:19 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Declaration of Independence in Black Declaration of Independence in Black rodney c./96 We hold these truths to be self-evident, since 1619 there has been a deliberate attempt to destroy, deny, subjugate and annihilate the African in America. When in the course of human events, one people has consistently been utilized as a scapegoat, humiliated as a nonperson, despised as a nonentity it becomes incumbent for that people to understand its vital interests lie in self-preservation, self assurance, self-defense, and self-actualization. Spirit murder, stalking our hood, would destroy our very souls. Clandestine conspirators, connected by hate, charge the ranks. Incendiary plots, devised in ignorance, planted by politics of despair. Psychic terrorists, fanning the flames, claim innocence in the poles. Pseudo-leaders, watching the tube, clamoring to lead the charge waiting, that media moment, 6 o'clock sound bites of their concern. Justice, no just us on one accord, demands that we stand. Freedom, that illusive bird, sings even caged of jubilee. Rage, quiet storms on the horizon, distorted melodies. Americas bitter harvest, hate drugged lunacy, plays the band. Southern hearts, bleeding in the fires, purified by the struggle. Waking from that long sleep, dreamers mount on steeds of steal. Mama's tears, Papa's fears, Sista-Brother all is here, then is now. Marching tall, hope comes at dawn, through this midnight hell. There they rise, amidst the rubble, souls leap steeped in love. Rain, the holy streams of life, washes away past stains. Glare, eyes of the storm, into this future. We declare, from hate, despair, chains, our independence. umoja Only when lions have historians will hunters cease being heroes. African Proverb Without struggle there is no progress. Frederick Douglass The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko yours in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 513 529-1235 email: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu From Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com Wed Jun 19 16:05:13 1996 From: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com (Don R. Calkins) Reply-To: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Subject: Re: Declaration of Independence in Black Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:56:00 GMT Organization: Common Link On-Line service > it becomes incumbent for that people to understand its vital interests lie > in self-preservation, self assurance, self-defense, and self-actualization. I find it interesting that this is the same attitude that led to the injustices you decry. The race issue will continue to exist so long as there are people who define their reality in terms of physical differences arising from an inconsequential proportion of our DNA. The answer to most of man's problem's will be realized as we learn to see ourselves not in terms of the accidents of our physical birth, but in terms our spiritual reality, human beings created in the image of God. Race Unity pages - http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/race.html Don C "Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other." - Baha'u'llah From coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Thu Jun 20 13:14:21 1996 From: "Rodney Coates" To: "coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu" , "Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com" Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 15:05:40 +0 Reply-To: "Rodney Coates" Subject: Re: Declaration of Independence in Black On 19 Jun 1996 16:56:00 GMT, Don R. Calkins wrote: >> it becomes incumbent for that people to understand its vital interests lie >> in self-preservation, self assurance, self-defense, and self-actualization. > >I find it interesting that this is the same attitude that led to the >injustices you decry. > >The race issue will continue to exist so long as there are people who define >their reality in terms of physical differences arising from an >inconsequential proportion of our DNA. > >The answer to most of man's problem's will be realized as we learn to see >ourselves not in terms of the accidents of our physical birth, but in terms >our spiritual reality, human beings created in the image of God. > >Race Unity pages - http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/race.html > >Don C > > > >"Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should >exalt himself over the other." - Baha'u'llah But unfortunately, race does matter...racial crimes do occur, race hatred is a reality...later..rodney c.. From Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com Thu Jun 20 15:05:17 1996 From: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com (Don R. Calkins) Reply-To: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu Subject: Re: Re: Declaration of Independence in Black Date: 20 Jun 1996 15:50:49 GMT Organization: Common Link On-Line service > But unfortunately, race does matter...racial crimes do occur, race > hatred is a reality Rodney - True, but they are only symptoms of the underlying problem. Admittedly, the symptoms can not be ignored, and sometimes must be treated before attempting to effect a cure; but until we concentrate on finding a cure, we are like the physician who hopes to cure typhus by prescribing aspirin to eliminate the discomfort. Don C "Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other." - Baha'u'llah : Race Unity pages - http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/race.html From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Fri Jun 21 08:39:42 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:37:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Black Church Bombings >From Alan Spector, REVS editor: I forward to REVS several postings that have appeared on other e-mail networks. I have erased the names of the authors because I am posting them as pieces of information/discourse, rather than as official opinion pieces by the authors. ------------------------------ The los Angeles Times (Opinion Section, p. 1 June 16, 1996) had a very good piece placing Black church bombings in a historical context. What I found insightful was the author's (whose name eludes me now) come to the conclusion that there is no conspiracy, he believes, behind all these brunings. In fact, the reality is even more frightening, that race relations are in such a trrrible state that many people are resorting to these burnings to express their hate. These burnings, in a culture that only see racism in terms of the polarities of Black/white, also need to be understood in the context of anti-immigrant xenophobia expressed in beatings of "latino looking individuals" (whatever a Latino is supposed to look like), vigilante posses persecuting "suspected" undocumented immigrants, and at least in California the kiilling and beating of Latinos, Asians recently by racist skinheads/neo-nazi groups. One last point, Tyrone Power, author of Eyes for the Soul, an expose off his years in the Federal Burau of Investigation, was inteviewed in Pacifica today. He points at the "damage control" that the Clinton Administration is engaged in to avoid dealing with these events for what they are: domestic terrorism. While must of us abhor the new powers invested in the state by the new terrorism law, is quite ironic that these laws have yet to be invoked when the victims are people of color. Mr. Power believes that in addition to racism the specter of "domestic terrorism" is not used because of the Atlanta Olimpic games. Could we imagine the impact on attendace if these rash of burnings in the South were focused by the International media on the eve of the Olimpics in a state in the South? From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Fri Jun 21 08:41:47 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:39:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Re: List of Black Churches Burned and comment >From Alan Spector, REVS eitor: Another forwarded message pulled off the internet ------------------------------ Yesterday His Emminence Jerry Falwell (very prominent Christian political conservative) spent the day in Boyd County, Kentucky, gatherring about himself the preachers to instruct them in the appropriate choices when they enter the voting booth. St.Jerry was interviewed by a local TV reporter and he was asked about the bombing of black churches. Falwell's reply was that there have been" as many white churches burned as black churches and the problem is not racism but hate of Jesus Christ." He went on to say that the only reason we haven't read or heard about the white churches is because it would not make good copy for Dan Rather. Am I the only one who has not heard about the "just as many" white churches as black churches being burned? I have seen the list of Black Churches burned but have not seen the White Church list. Has anyone on the list seen or heard of such? Thank you for your assistance. ======================================== From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Fri Jun 21 08:43:51 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:41:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Re: List of Black Churches Burned and comment >From Alan Spector, REVS editor: Another comment on the church burnings in the U.S. I thought that these might be particularly useful for those outside the U.S. who are not getting much information on this. On the other hand, those of us in the U.S. are also not getting much accurate information on this either....... ------------------------------ The reporter who is the point man on the invesitgation of the church bombings is Dennis Bernstein who is with the Pacifica radio network. He is based at KPFA in Berkeley, Ca. He states that the number of black churches bombed is grossly understated. Every year there are a number of churches bombed or burned. They are both black and white. The bombings and burnings of black churches that has been going on over the past three years is far beyond what can usually be expected in the same period. When both black and white churches are considered, the white churches Jerry is talking about represent a small persentage. He is hot the most accurate source of information of the issues that face black people. I saw him on Ted Koppel's show once with Jesse Jackson and jerry's perception of what was happening to people in South Africa under apartheid was so far off the mark that it seemed he was brain damaged. Perhaps he is. Anyway, there are over 100 black churches in Florida alone in the last year that have been destroyed. If that were true of white churches the state would be flooded with FBI agents. The burning of black churches warrants only an investigation by the ATF agency which happened to have a GOOD OLD BOYS CONFERENCE recently where they displayed and sold all kinds of racist T-shirts and posters along with KILL-A-NIGGER licenses. Jerry is just another type of "good old boy". We need to ask why the Government is not getting the best to investigate these burnings. =========================== From rturner@ua1ix.ua.edu Fri Jun 21 12:46:45 1996 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:46:12 -0600 (CDT) From: Ronald Turner Subject: Re: Declaration of Independence in Black To: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com In-Reply-To: <1261305854.1505007@commonlink.com> But what do we do when the physician does not believe that the patient is sick or has no interest in finding a cure? On xxx, 20 Jun 1996, Don R. Calkins wrote: > > But unfortunately, race does matter...racial crimes do occur, race > > hatred is a reality > > Rodney - > True, but they are only symptoms of the underlying problem. Admittedly, the > symptoms can not be ignored, and sometimes must be treated before attempting > to effect a cure; but until we concentrate on finding a cure, we are like the > physician who hopes to cure typhus by prescribing aspirin to eliminate the > discomfort. > > Don C > > > > "Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should > exalt himself over the other." - Baha'u'llah : Race Unity pages - > http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/race.html From BROWNH@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU Mon Jun 24 07:37:38 1996 From: BROWNH@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 9:37:30 -0400 (EDT) To: revs@csf.COLORADO.EDU Subject: New list on Taino/Arawak New list: Taino-L The Taino-L is associated with the Taino Inter-Tribal Council web page (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/taino/); is a forum for a discussion of the shared concerns of members of the Taino nation and other Arawak-speaking peoples from the Caribbean, U.S. and South America; and seeks to promote an awareness of the Taino people and the preservation of their culture. Use of an Arawak language as well as Spanish and English is encouraged. To subscribe to Taino-L, send a message to: majordomo@corso.ccsu.ctstateu.edu skip the subject line and as the first line of your message, type: SUBSCRIBE TAINO-L Taino-L archives can be reached through a hypermail web page interface: http://corso.ccsu.ctstateu.edu/archives/taino If you experience difficulties with this list, contact the list owner, Haines Brown, at brownh@ccsu.ctstateu.edu From Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com Fri Jun 21 17:02:15 1996 From: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com (Don R. Calkins) Reply-To: Don_R._Calkins@commonlink.com To: rturner@ua1ix.ua.edu Subject: Re: Re: Declaration of Independence in Black Date: 21 Jun 1996 16:45:52 GMT Organization: Common Link On-Line service > But what do we do when the physician does not believe that the patient is > sick or has no interest in finding a cure? Find a new physician. There are, of course, many physcians out there, many with extensive reputations. Unfortunately, most of them developed their reputations thru' agressive advertising, not on the basis of their cure rate. We have here a disease which goes thru' cycles of apparent cure, but are actually just periods of spontaneous remission in which the most obvious symptoms disappear. The fact that a particular physician was in attendance when the symptoms disappeared does not mean there was a cure effected. If you find one who appers to be successful in effecting cures, adopt his regimen; and then observe yourself and others, and see if a cure ensues. If so, then continue to follow the regimen; if not find another doctor who offers a different procedure. Don't simply find a new doctor promoting an old regimen, irregardless of the advertising. Don C "Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other." - Baha'u'llah : Race Unity pages - http://www.commonlink.com/~chiron_rising/race/race.html From sfaa@telepath.com Wed Jun 26 14:47:27 1996 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:43:03 -0500 To: dnemeth@uoft02.utoledo.edu, dornds@ccshp1.ccs.csus.edu, anthroclub@ucsd.edu, levin@soc.msstate.edu, peter.n.peregrine@lawrence.edu, donk@povn.com, ssalo@capaccess.org, soc-msu@msu.edu, devel-l@american.edu, artifact@umdd.umd.edu, res-l@bgu.edu, sswbasw@u.washington.edu, cet-mg@esusda.gov, revs@csf.colorado.edu, nativeweb@thecity.sfsu.edu, env-demog@csf.colorado.edu, psn@csf.colorado.edu, folklore@tamvm1.tamu.edu, anthro-l@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, nglover@ix.netcom.com, webmaster@cal.org, jburrows@halcyon.com, sha@azstarnet.com, wmst-l@umdd.umd.edu, mclr-l@msu.edu, labor-l@yorku.ca, afroam-l@harvarda.harvard.edu, ivsa@pdomain.uwindsor.ca, ruralusa@ers.bitnet, jwa@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, cjmovies@cnsibm.albany.edu, cjust-l@cunyvm.cuny.edu, socmajrs@tscvm.trenton.edu, sstlab-l@listserv.uic.edu, nnswm-l@list.ab.umd.edu, abslst-l@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu, sciofslw@branch.vcu.edu, mult-cul@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, isorg-l@cnsibm.albany.edu, appaldev@sjuvm.stjohns.edu, crtnet@psuvm.psu.edu, afam-l@mizzou1.missouri.edu, h-labor@msu.edu From: PMA Subject: 1997 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting METHOD - POWER - CHANGE APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGISTS TO MEET IN SEATTLE, MARCH 1997 The Society for Applied Anthropology is planning now for its 1997 Annual Meeting, to be held in Seattle, Washington, next March 4-8 at the Madison Renaissance Hotel. This meeting will be co-sponsored by the Society for Medical Anthropology, the Council on Nursing and Anthropology, and the Political Ecology Society. The American Ethnological Society will be meeting at the same time just a few blocks down the street at the Seattle Hilton. "The meeting's sponsorship reflects the wide range of subjects where anthropologists' insights and observations today are put to good use," according to Dr. Edward Liebow, the year's Program Chair and a senior scientist at the Battelle Seattle Research Center. "Health and medicine, community development, environmental resource protection, educational reform," Liebow said, "in every policy domain and every realm of application, from agenda setting to policy making and program evaluation, anthropologists provide methods that give life to the numbers, examine critically the distribution of power, illuminate the arc of change." ABSTRACTS ARE DUE OCTOBER 15, 1996 The Program Committee especially welcomes contributions on international, regional, and local perspectives from professionals within and outside the academy, and from indigenous communities. Please contact the Committee at the earliest possible date to share your ideas and plans (Ed Liebow: 206.528.3311; liebow@battelle.org). SPECIAL EVENTS Plans are underway to program a full slate of research presentations, including a major symposium jointly sponsored by the Societies for Medical Anthropology and Applied Anthropology. Also, the 1997 meeting will feature film and video screenings, book and software publishers' exhibits, and a chance to learn more about the applied anthropology graduate programs available at a growing number of universities. Cash prizes will be awarded to recognize excellence in student poster presentations. Workshops will be offered on a subscription-only basis for people interested in hands-on guidance in proposal writing, developing a consulting practice, working with the World Wide Web, and special methodological applications (focus groups, social network analysis). Tours are being planned to introduce visitors to the area's ethnic and cultural heritage, its corporate citizens, and key places in the regional health and medicine scene. ABOUT SEATTLE The Seattle area offers a combination of scenic beauty, cultural diversity, urban charm, and abundant recreational opportunities. The Spring weather is mild, and the city's attractions are many: A thriving International District, museums, theaters, galleries, bookshops, and espresso stands on every corner. Nearby are snow-capped mountains and the inland waters of Puget Sound. Watch a brand new jumbo jet roll off the Boeing assembly line; visit with Starbucks officials and learn about their corporate citizenship in countries supplying their coffee; watch the information age unfold before your very eyes at Microsoft headquarters; tour the Fred Hutchinson Research Center; or visit with anthropologists and public health staff involved with the Needle Exchange and Ethnomedicine projects at Harborview Medical Center. Vancouver, British Columbia is just a short trip away by car or train, another city of parks, beaches, arts poised on the brink of the Century of the Pacific. ABOUT THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY The Society for Applied Anthropology was incorporated as a scientific society in 1941. Its charter includes "scientific investigation of the principles controlling the relations of human beings to one another...and the wide application of those principles to practical problems." The Society publishes Human Organization and Practicing Anthropology, along with a directory of applied anthropologists, and occasional monographs, like the recent Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook. Detailed instructions about registering for the Meeting can be obtained from the World Wide Web (http://www.telepath.com/sfaa), from the May 1996 issue of the Society's Newsletter, or by contacting the Society's Business Office: P.O. Box 24083 Oklahoma City, OK 73124 405/843-5113 - phone 405/843-8553 - FAX sfaa@telepath.com - e-mail From spector@calumet.purdue.edu Fri Jun 28 11:37:07 1996 X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:34:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: Rwanda and genocide >From Alan Spector, REVS Editor/Manager:The following message appeared on another e-mail network. It raises some provocative points that would be of interest to REVS members. Forwarded message follows: ----------------- From: Steve Rosenthal Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:17:00 -0400 (EDT) To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Rwanda and genocide The discussion by Mbayiha Rene-Claude and others about the nature and causes of the genocide in Rwanda (and the continuing killing in neighboring Burundi) offered some important insights. In particular, the Belgian and other colonialists intensified the Hutu and Tutsi identities and promoted the Hamitic myth of the alleged European origins of the Tutsi. At Hampton University where I teach we have had considerable discussion about Rwanda, mainly led by several African faculty in the social sciences and history. I have learned that it has been a long time since Hutu and Tutsi were in any way physically distinguishable, but the division has been perpetuated both by colonial rulers and Rwandan rulers. Genocide in Rwanda, I think, was caused by imperialism and nationalism. Imperialists not only sustained and exacerbated the Tutsi-Hutu division. They also took sides and supplied arms. Since the end of the Cold War, competition between rival imperialists seems to be increasing in Africa. During the Cold War the U.S. was willing to let the French and others protect their neo-colonial interests and keep the Soviets at bay. Now the U.S. is challenging the French and all the imperialists are competing for markets, raw materials, investment opportunities, allies, etc. When they support and arm different groups, the result is often civil war. Nationalism also plays an important role in genocide. What the media called "tribal hatred" is essentially the equivalent of the nationalist hatreds whipped up by fascist politicians in the former Yugoslavia. Rwandan elites indoctrinated youth with fear and hatred and ordered them to slaughter their "enemies," while army units stood guard. It was not so different from mass exterminations during World War II or the U.S. led mass killings in Southeast Asia and Central America. The decay and death of the old international communist movement has led to an orgy of capitalist inspired racist and nationalist civil wars throughout the world. The urban and rural working people of the world are being slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, made into refugees and immigrants by these many civil wars. The UN and the imperialist states, with their "peace-keeping" and "humanitarian" missions will never end these wars. The international communist movement led the fight that destroyed the genocidal fascists during the 1940s. The rulers who incite violent hatred by saturating societies with vicious propaganda against a "race," "nationality," "tribe," or religious group are the enemies of working people everywhere. Steve Rosenthal